Background: In response to the public’s growing awareness of animal cruelty in the egg industry, United Egg Producers, the industry’s primary trade group, created the "Animal Care Certified" logo in 2000. Today over 80% of eggs found in supermarkets bare this deceptive logo. The logo is designed to deceive shoppers that the eggs in the carton were "humanely" produced.

Recent investigations by Compassion Over Killing (Washington DC) and Mercy For Animals (Columbus, Ohio) show the true hell the hens live in.

Two years ago, Compassion Over Killing (COK) petitioned the Better Business Bureau charging United Egg Producers with false advertising. While the bureau has no enforcement authority, it ruled in COK’s favor that the logo is deceptive. The case has since been referred to the Federal Trade Commission, whose decision is awaited. Meanwhile, on February 15, 2005, COK and four egg consumers filed a lawsuit against Giant Foods in Landover, Maryland, Brookville Supermarket in Washington, DC, and Lehman’s Egg Service, Inc. in Pennsylvania, charging that the "Animal Care Certified" (AAC) logo stamped on egg cartons deceives shoppers with a false message of humane animal care. (For full information visit www.Cok.net).

Please choose an egg-free, animal-free diet. There is no such thing as a "humane" commercial egg or any other animal product – no matter what the label says. For information visit on egg production, visit

Contact the Kroger Corporation in Cincinnati, Ohio, and urge Kroger’s CEO to remove the deceptive "Animal Care Certified" (AAC) seal. Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kroger is one of the nation’s largest retail grocery chains. Respectfully urge the Kroger Corporation to stop using the "Animal Care Certified" logo on its egg cartons, as well as the egg cartons of Kroger’s nearly two dozen other store brands.